Mu Yin, Minister of Military Aircraft, said: "Your Majesty, the land of Zhejiang, that is the important land of finance and taxation in the Qing Dynasty, and there is no room for loss!" Why don't you order the Jiangnan Governor and Chun of the Jiangnan battalion to send 20,000 troops, together with the local Qing soldiers in Zhejiang, to encircle and suppress the Cantonese thieves, and recover Quzhou and other lost state capitals, otherwise, once the Cantonese thieves gain a firm foothold, recruit some blind mobs in Zhejiang, and attack Hangzhou and Shaoxing, Huzhou and Ningbo, the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

Peng Yunzhang also echoed: "Your Majesty, Zhejiang Qian must not be lost." The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Once the Cantonese thieves capture Zhejiang, the entire Jiangnan will be over! The area around Songjiang Mansion in Suzhou is an important place for money and grain in the Qing Dynasty, and there are tariffs from Shanghi Customs, but they can't be saved. Peng Yunzhang is a native of Suzhou, and if Zhejiang Qian falls, his hometown Suzhou will soon fall into the hands of thieves, which is the last thing he wants to see.

Mu Yin continued: "As for the long-haired thieves in Shengjing, the emperor, according to the minions, should mobilize the banner soldiers of Jilin and Heilongjiang, and even order the DPRK to send some troops to quickly rush to Fengtianfu and exterminate them. Shengjing is the foundation of our Qing Dynasty, and there is no room for error. The slave is willing to donate most of his family wealth to raise military salaries and defend Shengjing. ”

Prince Gong Yixun also said: "Your Majesty, Shengjing is the foundation of my Qing Dynasty. The long-haired thieves in Fengtianfu must take advantage of the cold winter to be eliminated as soon as possible. It is better to transfer the Mongolian iron cavalry of the monk king's department to Mukden, and destroy it together with General Sheng Jing. As for Zhejiang, it has always been the land of money and grain in the Qing Dynasty, and it is also related to the safety of Shanghi Dao. If we announce that the city of Quzhou, which was occupied by the long-haired thieves, will be opened to foreigners as a treaty port, and they will be allowed to set up churches, foreign firms, and even concessions there, then the foreigners will be able to send troops to assist us in exterminating the bandits in the name of protecting the treaty ports. ”

When Qi Liaozao heard this, he was not happy: "Your Majesty, Lord Wang, Sheng Jing's arrangement to exterminate the long hair, the old minister agrees very much, and now only by sending the Mongolian iron cavalry can we quickly exterminate those thieves." However, the war arrangement in Zheqi was thought by the old minister to be inappropriate! Foreigners are barbarians with ill intentions, how different are they from these thieves? For the sake of his own rebel thieves, asking for help from foreigners, where is the face of the Qing Dynasty? The emperor has been at war with foreigners for only ten years, have I forgotten it in the Qing Dynasty? ”

Qi Liaozao is also a bachelor, and he said it with a righteous and awe-inspiring face, but he only opposed asking foreigners for help, but he didn't say any solution.

But he used the face of the court and the blood feud of the former emperor Xuanzong as an excuse, and Emperor Xianfeng really didn't pay attention to it.

Sure enough, as soon as he said this, Xianfeng, who had originally listened to Prince Gong's suggestion, changed slightly, and immediately reprimanded Yi Xun with a straight face: "It's still Qi Aiqing who is right." Sixth, you actually came up with such a bad idea, hum! Foreigners are all wolf ambitions, how can they seek skin with tigers? Besides, is it really that my Qing Dynasty is going to be reduced to such a pathetic level of minions who ask foreigners to help suppress their own rebellion? ”

Xianfeng saw that everyone couldn't discuss a good way, so he decided according to Mu Yin's suggestion: "Then so, pass on my will, and order Huang Zonghan, the governor of Zhejiang, to act as the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and lead the local state capitals and gentry to form a group of Yong, stick to Zhejiang, and guard against Cantonese thieves." Rush to Jinhua together to intercept the Cantonese thieves. Hangzhou general Ruichang commanded 5,000 Eight Banner soldiers, together with Huang Zonghan and others, rushed to Jinhua to defend, be sure to intercept the Guangdong thieves in the Jinhua area, wait for the local regiment to arrive, and work together to attack the thieves. He also ordered Huang Zonghan to allocate 100,000 taels of silver for 5,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners as military expenses. ”

"The long-haired thieves of Shengjing Fengtianfu must be exterminated as soon as possible! He ordered the monk Grinqin to make meritorious service and lead the Mongolian cavalry to rush to Mukden! At the same time, the famous Shengjing general Yixing and the Jilin general Jingchun each led 20,000 troops as the main attack; Let the North Korean Lee send 5,000 troops, carry their own food, and go to Shengjing to help in the war! ”

"As for the Jiangnan battalion, after besieging Jiangning City for a year and not attacking, he asked Hechun to send 5,000 troops to support Zheqi. Wait until the war in Zhejiang is quelled, and then fight back at Jiangning! ”

Xianfeng has spoken, who else dares not to listen? Everyone had to shout long live, Emperor Qi Dao Shengming!

Only Prince Gong Yixun looked at Su Shun, and the two glanced at each other, frowned, and sighed heavily.

After discussing a few headaches, Xianfeng suddenly remembered something and said: "There is another matter, Jiang Zhongyuan, the governor of Anman, died in battle, and his loyalty is commendable. But! ”

Speaking of this, Xianfeng's face twitched, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Shu Xing'a, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, who failed to rescue effectively, will be dismissed from his post and handed over to the Criminal Department first, and the reinforcements under his command will be handed over to the governor of Jiangnan and Chunyi first. There are also those officials who surrendered and rebelled, such as Wang Jinxiu, the deputy general of the Qujing Association, and Hu Yuanwei, the prefect of Luzhou, and others, I want to exterminate the nine clans! The rest of the civil and military officials who lost their territories were all dismissed from their posts on the spot and retained in their posts, and they were guilty of meritorious service. ”

Xianfeng was also angry. So many places were conquered by the long-haired thieves and Cantonese thieves one after another, and the local officials and garrisons had no ability to resist, and either fled or surrendered, which made him greatly frightened.

Seeing that Xianfeng's shoulders were shaking up and down, and he was still Su Shun and clever, he hurriedly participated: "Your Majesty, the head of the long-haired thief chief and pseudo-prime minister Zeng Tianyang has reached the Ministry of War, and I would like to ask the emperor how to deal with it?" ”

Sure enough, as soon as he heard this, Xianfeng's eyes lit up, forgetting the anger just now, and said excitedly: "Su Shun, the 'Jingguan' I asked you to build last time, has it ever been built?" And what about the head of the thief chief last time? ”

"Back to the emperor, the servants have already chosen a place in the west city outside the palace and built the 'Jingguan', and the thief chief named Ji Wenyuan last time has been placed on the first floor of the 'Jingguan'." Su Shun said hurriedly.

"Well, that's good! Then the head of this thief chief was also sent to 'Jingguan', with his name pasted, and troops were sent to garrison it. It is also necessary to open the 'Jingguan' for the people to watch. Let them all know the fate of the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty! Xianfeng shouted viciously, making all the ministers present feel cold.

Let the ministers of military aircraft leave, and Xianfeng left Prince Gong Yixun and Su Shun behind.

"The treasury of the Qing Dynasty is becoming more and more empty, and it is beyond its means!" Xianfeng said leisurely: "Su Shun, the matter of casting a lot of money you said last time, I have asked the household department to handle it. But now that the Yunan copper mining area is occupied by Cantonese thieves, where does the copper needed to mint money come from? ”

Yixun's face was full of shock, and he looked at Su Shun next to him, but his face was calm, it seemed that Su Shun had already known about it. He also knew that since the long-haired thief uprising, the expenses of the imperial court have increased day by day, the soldiers have been used continuously, and the food and salary have been consumed, but he didn't expect it to be so serious.

You want to mint a lot of money?!

In his impression, the Qing Dynasty had a vast territory, rich products, and tens of millions of silver in the accounts every year, no matter what, even if it was the use of troops and natural disasters, it would not come to such a point.

Yixun has been familiar with history books and scriptures since he was a child, but how can he not know the benefits and harms of casting big money. However, if it is true that the treasury is empty, it can really only be made up for by minting a lot of money.

"Your Majesty, my brother has an idea, and he can find a copper cast." Yixun also wants to contribute to the imperial court, and he also has a part in the Qing Dynasty.

"Say!"

"Foreigners do not use copper coins, and my brother heard that there is a Western country, named France, and all the cannons cast are copper. Why not buy some copper from them and solve the problem of copper casting. After being crowned the prince, Yixun came into contact with some books introducing the West, and learned about the Westerners through his subordinates, so he was very familiar with the West.

"Well, that's a good idea. Su Shun, you will contact the Taoist, Zhang Luo, buy more copper as soon as possible, and mint copper coins. Xianfeng said, thought for a while, and stared at Yixun again: "Sixth brother, the court and I are extremely short of money, you are my brother, but you want to help me." ”

Yi Xun tightened suddenly, the emperor wouldn't be eyeing the wealth in his palace, right? In Daoguang's edict, he was named Prince Gong and rewarded him with a lot of wealth. Now Xianfeng's eyes are the same as when he was a child more than ten years ago, robbing his playthings, and he can't help but worry.

"Brother, listen to the emperor's orders!"

"In that case, lend me a million taels first, and when you defeat the thief, I will reward you heavily!"

And so it was! The fourth brother is still so shameless, the lion opened his mouth, and he asked for a million taels at once!

Yixun almost wanted to shout loudly: you! But he couldn't, he knew that since the fight for the throne, Xianfeng had been wary of him. He could only hold back the anger in his heart, and did not show it on his face at all, but said with a smile: "Your Majesty, you can really look down on your courtiers!" There are many servants in the Gongwang Mansion of the younger brothers, and the expenses are quite large. In addition, when Huang Ama went, he only gave his ministers a few mansions and a palace, and there were a few small imperial villages to make it difficult for his ministers, and the ministers wanted to ask the emperor for some rewards. However, when the emperor opened Chrysostom, the courtiers tightened their belts, sold the house, and scraped together 500,000 taels! ”

Xianfeng saw that Yixun was crying poor, and he was willing to take out 500,000 taels, so he nodded, and said with a rare smile: "It's still the sixth person who understands my difficulties!" ”

"Sixth, in the future, you will work with Su Shun to help me think of a trick and get some silver taels as a soldier's salary! You don't know, I'm going crazy with those salaries and rations now. Xianfeng couldn't help but spit bitterness: "I knew that at the beginning, I might as well give up this throne to the sixth brother!" After speaking, he looked at Yixun with a smile.

Yixun's face changed in fright, and he quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily: "Your Majesty, how dare a slave!" I hope that the emperor will never joke like this again, otherwise, the slave can only die to make his will clear. ”

Su Shun also hurriedly knelt on the ground, not daring to move.

"Haha, I'm just joking!" Xianfeng was very happy when he saw Yixun's frightened appearance.

After discussing for so long, Xianfeng had already felt tired, and a burst of longing came from his mind, and the addiction to smoking was committed again. He yawned, told Yixun and Su Shun to kneel and leave, and couldn't wait to hide in the imperial study and enjoy the beauty of the blessed longevity ointment.

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